US Patent Class 65
GLASS MANUFACTURING
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| DF | CLASS NOTES | |
| 376 | DF | PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURING FIBERS, FILAMENTS, OR PREFORMS |
| 377 | DF | .~ With measuring, controlling, sensing, programming, timing, indicating, or testing |
| 378 | DF | .~.~ Optical property |
| 379 | DF | .~.~ Fluid pressure |
| 380 | DF | .~.~ Molten material level |
| 381 | DF | .~.~ Winder or puller movement |
| 382 | DF | .~.~ Diameter or coating thickness |
| 384 | DF | .~.~ Temperature |
| 385 | DF | .~ Process of manufacturing optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms thereof |
| 386 | DF | .~.~ Planar waveguides |
| 387 | DF | .~.~ Forming lens integral with optical fiber |
| 388 | DF | .~.~ Nonoxygen halide glass (e.g., metal halide, etc.) |
| 389 | DF | .~.~ Nonoxygen chalcogenide glass containing |
| 390 | DF | .~.~ Scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), or rare earth doped core or preform (i.e., atomic numbers 21, 39, 57-72) |
| 391 | DF | .~.~ Plasma utilized |
| 392 | DF | .~.~ Laser utilized |
| 393 | DF | .~.~ Hollow optical fibers or waveguides |
| 394 | DF | .~.~ Ion implantation |
| 395 | DF | .~.~ Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized |
| 396 | DF | .~.~.~ Sonic or ultrasonic energy utilized (e.g., homogenizing, dispersing, etc.) |
| 397 | DF | .~.~ Fluorine doping |
| 398 | DF | .~.~.~ Germanium or boron containing |
| 399 | DF | .~.~ Incorporating dopant into porous body |
| 400 | DF | .~.~ Ion exchange utilized |
| 401 | DF | .~.~ Extruding |
| 402 | DF | .~.~ Producing bent, crimped, twisted, textured, or curled optical fibers or waveguides |
| 403 | DF | .~.~ Producing noncircular optical fibers or waveguides (e.g., particular cross section, etc.) |
| 404 | DF | .~.~ With step of casting or forming nonfiber workpiece (e.g., molding liquid preform, shaping molten glass against a forming surface, etc.) |
| 405 | DF | .~.~ Utilizing multiple crucibles or multiple feed streams of molten glass |
| 406 | DF | .~.~ Joining or bonding optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms (e.g., coupling, etc.) |
| 407 | DF | .~.~.~ End to end (i.e., butt end joining) |
| 408 | DF | .~.~.~ Side to side |
| 409 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Having plural adjacent fibers or rods sheathed (i.e., bundle) in tube or enclosure |
| 410 | DF | .~.~.~.~ By fusing preformed fibers without attenuating stock material |
| 411 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With stretching or drawing |
| 412 | DF | .~.~.~ Rod placed inside of tube |
| 413 | DF | .~.~ With step of vapor deposition |
| 414 | DF | .~.~.~ Forming optical fiber or fiber preform by soot buildup (i.e., vapor axial deposition, VAD) |
| 415 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Forming glass layers with graded or radially varying refractive index |
| 416 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Consolidation in situ (e.g., sintering, etc.) |
| 417 | DF | .~.~.~ Inside of tube or hollow form by soot buildup |
| 418 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Elongated material feed means within tube (e.g., reactant feed means place inside of tube, etc.) |
| 419 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With step of collapsing tube |
| 420 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Maintaining isotropic conditions inside of tube |
| 421 | DF | .~.~.~ Outside of tube or rod by soot buildup |
| 422 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With dehydration (e.g., OH removal, etc.) |
| 423 | DF | .~.~.~ Inorganic carbon, metal oxide, or inorganic nitrogen containing material deposited (e.g., elemental carbon, carbides, nitrides, etc.) |
| 424 | DF | .~.~ Inert, nonoxidizing, or reducing environment |
| 425 | DF | .~.~ Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized |
| 426 | DF | .~.~ Drying, dehydration, OH removal or prevention |
| 427 | DF | .~.~ Consolidating preform (e.g., sintering, etc.) |
| 428 | DF | .~.~.~ Collapsing tube |
| 429 | DF | .~.~ With etching or leaching |
| 430 | DF | .~.~ With significant coating step |
| 431 | DF | .~.~.~ Free metal or metal alloy containing coating |
| 432 | DF | .~.~.~ Synthetic or natural resin containing coating |
| 433 | DF | .~.~ With cutting or severing |
| 434 | DF | .~.~ With quench cooling (e.g., forced air or cryogenic immersion, etc.) |
| 435 | DF | .~.~ With fiber stretching, drawing, or pulling (e.g., from rod, etc.) |
| 436 | DF | .~ Plasma utilized |
| 437 | DF | .~ Producing noncircular fibers (e.g., particular cross section, flat, elliptical, etc.) |
| 438 | DF | .~ Producing crimped, twisted, or curled fibers (e.g., textured, etc.) |
| 439 | DF | .~ Producing hollow fibers or tubular preforms |
| 440 | DF | .~ Sol-gel route or ion exchange utilized |
| 441 | DF | .~ Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized |
| 442 | DF | .~ Composite fiber matrix (e.g., carbon or metal fiber with glass matrix or vice versa, etc.) |
| 443 | DF | .~ With coating (e.g., lubricant, sizing, etc.) |
| 444 | DF | .~.~ Glass (i.e., nonoptical fiber, metal oxide) |
| 445 | DF | .~.~ Free metal or alloy containing |
| 446 | DF | .~.~.~ Vapor deposition of free metal or free metal containing material |
| 447 | DF | .~.~ Synthetic resin, natural resin, or asphalt coating |
| 448 | DF | .~.~.~ Organic silicon containing (e.g., coupling agent, etc.) |
| 449 | DF | .~.~.~ Asphalt |
| 450 | DF | .~.~.~ Thermosetting or themoplastic resin |
| 451 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Nitrogen or phenol containing |
| 452 | DF | .~.~ With severing |
| 453 | DF | .~.~ With advancing, gathering, or winding continuous fiber or filament |
| 454 | DF | .~ Formation of fiber or preform utilizing fluid blast (e.g., from molten glass, etc.) |
| 455 | DF | .~.~ During slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution |
| 456 | DF | .~.~.~ Depositing molten glass on periphery of rotating fiberizing means (e.g., disc, rotor, wheel, etc.) |
| 457 | DF | .~.~.~ Specified composition of slinger or rotary-centrifugal fiber distributor |
| 458 | DF | .~.~.~ Fluid blast guide, baffle, or deflector |
| 459 | DF | .~.~.~ Centrifuge with fiberizing holes |
| 460 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Adjacent combustion chamber, burner, or blower utilized |
| 461 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Having at least two concentric burners or blowers |
| 462 | DF | .~.~ Solid fibers comminuted by fluid blast |
| 463 | DF | .~.~ Specified nozzle opening or configuration (e.g., opening size, cross section, etc.) |
| 464 | DF | .~.~ Fluid discharge skirt or shield utilized |
| 465 | DF | .~.~ Attenuation by fluid blast contacting glass |
| 466 | DF | .~.~.~ Plural fluid blasts or jets contacting single glass stream |
| 467 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Fluid blast penetrated transversely by jet (e.g., toration, etc.) |
| 468 | DF | .~.~ Flame or combustible fluid blast utilized |
| 469 | DF | .~ By slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution (i.e., without fluid blast) |
| 470 | DF | .~.~ Centrifuge with fiberizing holes |
| 471 | DF | .~ With bushing flood prevention, removal, or breakout prevention |
| 472 | DF | .~ With chemical etching or leaching |
| 473 | DF | .~ With removal of coating (e.g., desizing, oxidizing coating, etc.) |
| 474 | DF | .~ With purifying or homogenizing molten glass (e.g., removing bubbles, etc.) |
| 475 | DF | .~ With fiber drawing or pulling (e.g., attenuating, etc.) |
| 476 | DF | .~.~ By modifying fluid pressure (e.g., vacuum, reduced or superatmospheric pressure, etc.) |
| 477 | DF | .~.~ Drawing fiber from rod |
| 478 | DF | .~.~ Fluid assisted attenuation or directing of fiber or filament |
| 479 | DF | .~.~ Reeling or winding |
| 480 | DF | .~.~ Cutting or severing |
| 481 | DF | .~.~ Cooling of molten glass at forming area (e.g., cooling fins, etc.) |
| 482 | DF | .~ With charging or pretreatment of batch material (e.g., gas heating, crushing, etc.) |
| 483 | DF | FIBER MAKING APPARATUS |
| 484 | DF | .~ With measuring, controlling, sensing, timing, inspecting, indicating, or testing means |
| 485 | DF | .~.~ By optical means or of optical property |
| 486 | DF | .~.~ Winder or puller movement (e.g., drawing sensor, etc.) |
| 487 | DF | .~.~ Having fiber breakout detection, compensation, or prevention means |
| 488 | DF | .~.~ Temperature |
| 489 | DF | .~.~ Fluid pressure |
| 490 | DF | .~.~ Molten glass level (e.g., sensor, check valve, etc.) |
| 491 | DF | .~.~ Diameter or coating thickness |
| 492 | DF | .~ With designated composition of dies, bushings, or nozzles |
| 493 | DF | .~.~ Platinum group metal containing (i.e., ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), osmium (Os), iridium (Ir), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt)) |
| 494 | DF | .~ With means to form hollow fiber or preform |
| 495 | DF | .~ With specified bushing, tip, or feeder structure |
| 496 | DF | .~.~ Tipless |
| 497 | DF | .~.~ Noncircular tip opening (e.g., elliptical, polygonal, etc.) |
| 498 | DF | .~.~ With cooling means for bushing (e.g., orifice plate cooling, etc.) |
| 499 | DF | .~.~ With heating means for bushing |
| 500 | DF | .~ With means to align preform with drawing apparatus or form multifilament fibers (e.g., gathering shoe, etc.) |
| 501 | DF | .~ With fiber splicing or coupling means (e.g., fusion splicing, end to end, side to side, etc.) |
| 502 | DF | .~ With multiple crucible or multichamber system |
| 503 | DF | .~ With cleaning means |
| 504 | DF | .~ With crimping or curling means |
| 505 | DF | .~ With means to distribute fibers across collecting surface (e.g., blower, mechanical distribution means, reciprocating, oscillating, etc.) |
| 506 | DF | .~ With assorting means |
| 507 | DF | .~ With means for heating newly formed filament, fiber, or preform |
| 508 | DF | .~.~ Having means to shape or modify |
| 509 | DF | .~.~ Electric or electromagnetic heating utilized (e.g., induction heat, etc.) |
| 510 | DF | .~ With means for cooling newly formed fiber, filament, or preform (e.g., nascent fiber, etc.) |
| 511 | DF | .~.~ With cooling surfaces or fins |
| 512 | DF | .~.~.~ Fluid cooling agent circulated |
| 513 | DF | .~.~ Gas column (e.g., generally upward gas stream, etc.) |
| 514 | DF | .~.~ Liquid stream or spray |
| 515 | DF | .~ Specified composition of slinger or rotary-centrifugal fiber forming means |
| 516 | DF | .~ Rotary-centrifugal fiber forming means (e.g., slinger, rotary disc, no fiberizing holes, etc.) |
| 517 | DF | .~.~ Having fluid blast means for contacting glass |
| 518 | DF | .~.~.~ With fluid blast guide, baffle, or deflector |
| 519 | DF | .~.~ Having means to pass cooling fluid through apparatus |
| 520 | DF | .~.~ Depositing glass on periphery of rotating fiber forming means (e.g., disc, rotor, wheel, etc.) |
| 521 | DF | .~ Centrifuge with fiberizing holes (e.g., rotor, etc.) |
| 522 | DF | .~.~ Having adjacent combustion chamber, burner, or blower utilized |
| 523 | DF | .~.~.~ With at least two concentric blowers or burners |
| 524 | DF | .~ With fluid blast means |
| 525 | DF | .~.~ Having specified nozzle opening size or nozzle cross section |
| 526 | DF | .~.~ Having fluid discharge skirt or deflector |
| 527 | DF | .~.~.~ Toration means utilized |
| 528 | DF | .~.~ Combustion or flame attenuation |
| 529 | DF | .~ Having coating or treating means |
| 530 | DF | .~.~ Having gas feeding or withdrawal means |
| 531 | DF | .~.~.~ Having soot forming flame hydrolysis burner (e.g., flame oxidation, etc.) |
| 532 | DF | .~.~.~ With means for recovery, recirculation, or elimination of excess gas feed or coating material |
| 533 | DF | .~ With drawing means |
| 534 | DF | .~.~ Movable furnace or bushing (e.g., rotatable, reciprocating, etc.) |
| 535 | DF | .~.~ Pulling wheels or rolls |
| 536 | DF | .~.~.~ With severing |
| 537 | DF | .~.~ From rod stock |
| 538 | DF | .~.~ With fluid assisting means |
| 539 | DF | .~ With winding means |
| 540 | DF | .~ With furnace charging means |
| 17.1 | DF | PROCESSES |
| 17.2 | DF | .~ Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized |
| 17.3 | DF | .~ With shaping of particulate material and subsequent fusing of particles |
| 17.4 | DF | .~.~ Including flame or gas contact |
| 17.5 | DF | .~.~ Employing nonoxide additive |
| 17.6 | DF | .~.~ With treatment subsequent to fusing |
| 19 | DF | .~ Slag, utilization |
| 20 | DF | .~.~ Foaming of slag |
| 21.1 | DF | .~ Self-supporting particle making (e.g., bead, ball, granule, etc.) |
| 21.2 | DF | .~.~ By molten glass comminuting |
| 21.3 | DF | .~.~ Spheroidizing or rounding of solid glass particles |
| 21.4 | DF | .~.~ Hollow or porous particle |
| 21.5 | DF | .~.~ With mechanical shaping or subdividing |
| 22 | DF | .~ With pore forming in situ |
| 23 | DF | .~ With destruction or delamination of transitory attached or associated separate material |
| 24 | DF | .~ Utilizing parting or lubricating layer |
| 25.1 | DF | .~.~ Providing a gaseous layer between glass and apparatus |
| 25.2 | DF | .~.~.~ Sheet |
| 25.3 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Formed from molten glass |
| 25.4 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Reshaping |
| 26 | DF | .~.~ Coating of apparatus |
| 27 | DF | .~ Repairing or cleaning of apparatus; or batch dust prevention or control |
| 28 | DF | .~ With glass reclaiming, repairing or crack run interruption |
| 29.1 | DF | .~ With program, time, or cyclic control |
| 29.11 | DF | .~.~ Electric computer or data processing system utilized |
| 29.12 | DF | .~ With measuring, sensing, inspecting, indicating, or testing |
| 29.13 | DF | .~.~ Combustion chamber atmosphere |
| 29.14 | DF | .~.~ Diameter, width, or thickness of formed article |
| 29.15 | DF | .~.~ Fluid pressure |
| 29.16 | DF | .~.~ Batch or feed material |
| 29.17 | DF | .~.~ Level or flow of molten material |
| 29.18 | DF | .~.~ Magnetic, electromagnetic, or wave energy utilized (e.g., light, infrared, ultrasonic, etc.) |
| 29.19 | DF | .~.~ Temperature |
| 29.21 | DF | .~.~.~ Of molten glass |
| 30.1 | DF | .~ With chemically reactive treatment of glass preform |
| 30.11 | DF | .~.~ To enhance the ability to darken or change color in response to radiation exposure (e.g., photochromic) |
| 30.12 | DF | .~.~ To hydrate the glass |
| 30.13 | DF | .~.~ With metal ion penetrating into glass (i.e., ion exchange) |
| 30.14 | DF | .~.~.~ To temper or strengthen the glass |
| 31 | DF | .~.~ By etching or leaching |
| 32.1 | DF | .~ Operating under inert or reducing conditions |
| 32.2 | DF | .~.~ With bonding or sealing |
| 32.3 | DF | .~.~ With crystallization or photochromism or phase separation |
| 32.4 | DF | .~.~ With coating |
| 32.5 | DF | .~.~ With forming glass from molten state, with treatment of molten glass, or with drawing of glass in softened state |
| 33.1 | DF | .~ Devitrifying glass or vitrifying crystalline glass (e.g., starting with or forming crystalline glass, etc.) |
| 33.2 | DF | .~.~ Electromagnetic radiation or resulting heat utilized (e.g., gamma rays, X-rays, atomic particles UV, visible, IR, actinic, laser, microwave or radio wave, etc.) |
| 33.3 | DF | .~.~ Halogen containing phase (e.g., crystalline or noncrystalline, etc.) |
| 33.4 | DF | .~.~ With coating |
| 33.5 | DF | .~.~ With fusion bonding glass to a formed part (e.g., devitrified seals, glass to metal, etc.) |
| 33.6 | DF | .~.~.~ Glass applied in powdered form (i.e., frit) |
| 33.7 | DF | .~.~ Alumino-silicate containing phase |
| 33.8 | DF | .~.~.~ Containing at least 3 percent lithium or lithium oxide (e.g., spodumene, eucryptite, petalite, etc.) |
| 33.9 | DF | .~.~ Forming product or preform from molten glass |
| 34 | DF | .~ With sealing off of gas evacuating opening |
| 35 | DF | .~ With vibrating, oscillating or agitating a preform |
| 36 | DF | .~ Fusion bonding of glass to a formed part |
| 37 | DF | .~.~ Lens making |
| 38 | DF | .~.~.~ With bonding of at least three formed parts |
| 39 | DF | .~.~.~ With molding or reshaping of glass to assume shape of configured lens part during bonding |
| 40 | DF | .~.~ Dielectric or joule effect heating of work |
| 41 | DF | .~.~ With annealing or tempering of glass |
| 42 | DF | .~.~ Bonding of subassembly with subsequent assembly and bonding (formed parts only) |
| 43 | DF | .~.~ By or with coating at joint interface of a formed part prior to bonding |
| 44 | DF | .~.~ With embossing or corrugating |
| 45 | DF | .~.~ With glass part forming from shapeless molten glass |
| 46 | DF | .~.~.~ With blowing to shape glass |
| 47 | DF | .~.~.~ In mold cavity |
| 48 | DF | .~.~.~.~ And bonding to part in same mold cavity |
| 49 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Bonding to metal formed part |
| 50 | DF | .~.~.~ Forming and bonding glass sheet to metal part |
| 51 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Contacting metal with molten glass prior to forming sheet |
| 52 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Forming of plural glass sheets |
| 53 | DF | .~.~.~ Forming plural sheets or sheet-like streams from same source |
| 54 | DF | .~.~ With reshaping glass preform prior to assembly or subsequent to bonding |
| 55 | DF | .~.~.~ Prior to assembly |
| 56 | DF | .~.~ With severing, perforating, or breaking of glass |
| 57 | DF | .~.~ Relative rotation of work and heating means |
| 58 | DF | .~.~ Of parts having opposed facing areas out of contact (e.g., building blocks) |
| 59.1 | DF | .~.~ Of glass to metal part |
| 59.2 | DF | .~.~.~ Maintaining cavity in glass |
| 59.21 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Glass applied in powdered (i.e., frit) form |
| 59.22 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Named fusible bonding material employed |
| 59.23 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With firing in vacuum, in inert atmosphere, or in pumped in gas |
| 59.24 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part outside of glass part |
| 59.25 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part inserted through hole or into groove in glass part |
| 59.26 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part forced through or into softened glass part (e.g., pinch sealing, etc.) |
| 59.27 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part |
| 59.28 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Relative movement or manipulation of parts during or immediately preceding fusion |
| 59.3 | DF | .~.~.~ More than two parts in overlaying series (noncavity) |
| 59.31 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part inserted through hole or into groove in glass part |
| 59.32 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part forced through or into softened glass part (e.g., pinch sealing, etc.) |
| 59.33 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Relative movement or manipulation of parts during or immediately preceding fusion |
| 59.34 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part outside of glass part |
| 59.35 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part |
| 59.4 | DF | .~.~.~ Metal part outside of glass part |
| 59.5 | DF | .~.~.~ Glass applied in powdered (i.e., frit) form |
| 59.6 | DF | .~.~.~ Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part |
| 59.7 | DF | .~.~.~ Metal part forced through or into softened glass part (e.g., pinch sealing, etc.) |
| 60.1 | DF | .~ With coating |
| 60.2 | DF | .~.~ Plural diverse layers |
| 60.3 | DF | .~.~ Organic coating |
| 60.4 | DF | .~.~ Free metal coating |
| 60.5 | DF | .~.~ Oxide coating |
| 60.51 | DF | .~.~.~ From inorganic metal salt |
| 60.52 | DF | .~.~.~ From organic metal compound |
| 60.53 | DF | .~.~.~ From inorganic oxides or hydroxides |
| 60.6 | DF | .~.~ Free carbon containing coating |
| 60.7 | DF | .~.~ Inorganic metal salt containing coating |
| 60.8 | DF | .~.~ Silicon containing coating |
| 61 | DF | .~ With wearing away of surface material (e.g., abrading or grinding) |
| 62 | DF | .~ Combined |
| 63 | DF | .~ Sequentially forming, reheating, and working |
| 64 | DF | .~.~ Reshaping |
| 65 | DF | .~ Forming and fire polishing or product |
| 66 | DF | .~ Forming product or preform from molten glass |
| 67 | DF | .~.~ Converting sheet to hollow product or hollow product to sheet |
| 68 | DF | .~.~ Initial forming of hollow product or preform in mold cavity |
| 69 | DF | .~.~.~ With annealing or tempering |
| 70 | DF | .~.~.~ With severing of formed product |
| 71 | DF | .~.~.~ Spreading of molten glass by rotation |
| 72 | DF | .~.~.~ With charging of mold cavity |
| 73 | DF | .~.~.~.~ By suction from upper surface of "pool" |
| 74 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With sequential blowing in charged cavity |
| 75 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Through orifice in bottom wall of dispenser |
| 76 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With additional diverse shaping step |
| 77 | DF | .~.~.~ With additional forming step |
| 78 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Diverse |
| 79 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Press and blow |
| 80 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ In separate lines |
| 81 | DF | .~.~.~ By differential gas pressure |
| 82 | DF | .~.~ Reshaping of hot parison in mold cavity to form hollow article |
| 83 | DF | .~.~ With positive cooling of product or molten glass at forming area |
| 84 | DF | .~.~.~ By direct gaseous contact |
| 85 | DF | .~.~.~ Of glass product |
| 86 | DF | .~.~ Drawing and simultaneously forming hollow stock from molten glass |
| 87 | DF | .~.~.~ With additional shaping, or severing, or perforating |
| 88 | DF | .~.~.~ Vertically drawing upwardly while applying fluid internally of stock |
| 89 | DF | .~.~ Forming hollow stock by surface filming |
| 90 | DF | .~.~ Sheet |
| 91 | DF | .~.~.~ With application of lateral tension to edge portion of moving sheet |
| 92 | DF | .~.~.~ With smoothing subsequent to sheet formation |
| 93 | DF | .~.~.~ With reshaping or surface deformation |
| 94 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Subsequent to formation |
| 95 | DF | .~.~.~ With annealing or tempering |
| 96 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Conveying at different rate than speed of formation |
| 97 | DF | .~.~.~ With severing or perforating |
| 98 | DF | .~.~.~ Simultaneously forming plural separate sheets |
| 99.1 | DF | .~.~.~ By or with pouring molten glass onto forming surface |
| 99.2 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Utilizing molten metal forming surface |
| 99.3 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Maintaining molten metal temperature |
| 99.4 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Treating or removing impurities in molten metal or glass |
| 99.5 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Maintaining or adjusting sheet width or thickness |
| 99.6 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ By nonmechanical means |
| 100 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Onto moving roll or platen |
| 101 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Through bite of rolls |
| 102 | DF | .~ Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform |
| 103 | DF | .~.~ Utilizing heat shield or heat-sink |
| 104 | DF | .~.~ With annealing, tempering, or fire-polishing |
| 105 | DF | .~.~ With severing or perforating |
| 106 | DF | .~.~ Reshaping of planar sheet |
| 107 | DF | .~.~.~ By sagging by gravity on mold surface |
| 108 | DF | .~.~ Reshaping of tubular preform, retaining cavity |
| 109 | DF | .~.~.~ During rotation |
| 110 | DF | .~.~.~ Utilizing vacuum or gas pressure |
| 111 | DF | .~ Glass preform treating |
| 112 | DF | .~.~ With severing or preforating |
| 113 | DF | .~.~.~ By or with flame |
| 114 | DF | .~.~ Tempering |
| 115 | DF | .~.~.~ Differential or localized |
| 116 | DF | .~.~.~ Quenching in liquid bath |
| 117 | DF | .~.~ Annealing |
| 118 | DF | .~.~.~ During conveying |
| 119 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Annealing by direct contact with gaseous heat exchange medium |
| 120 | DF | .~.~ By flame |
| 121 | DF | .~ Blending of separate molten glass streams |
| 122 | DF | .~ Charging of molten glass into mold cavity |
| 123 | DF | .~.~ By gravity and severing subsequent to charging mold cavity |
| 124 | DF | .~.~ By suction |
| 125 | DF | .~ Gathering from upper surface of glass pool |
| 126 | DF | .~ Discharging molten glass downwardly through orifice |
| 127 | DF | .~.~ With gob shaping or treating subsequent to discharge through orifice |
| 128 | DF | .~.~ With temperature modification at orifice |
| 129 | DF | .~.~ Regulating or arresting of flow into or out of orifice |
| 130 | DF | .~.~.~ With or by differential gas pressure |
| 131 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With segregation prior to discharge |
| 132 | DF | .~.~.~ With segregation prior to discharge |
| 133 | DF | .~ Severing of molten glass stream |
| 134.1 | DF | .~ Fining or homogenizing molten glass |
| 134.2 | DF | .~.~ Subatmospheric pressure or vacuum utilized |
| 134.3 | DF | .~.~ Melt accelerator or color modifier utilized (e.g., fining agent, etc.) |
| 134.4 | DF | .~.~ Oxygen enriched or nitrogen reduced gas utilized (i.e., modified air) |
| 134.5 | DF | .~.~ By injecting gas below surface of molten glass |
| 134.6 | DF | .~.~ Exhaust or top gas treated or recycled |
| 134.7 | DF | .~.~ Rotating furnace or chamber utilized (e.g., crucible, etc.) |
| 134.8 | DF | .~.~ By melting toxic or waste material |
| 134.9 | DF | .~.~ By eliminating gaseous inclusions (e.g., bubbles, etc.) |
| 135.1 | DF | .~.~ Glass conditioning channel section utilized |
| 135.2 | DF | .~.~ By agitating |
| 135.3 | DF | .~.~.~ Mechanical stirrers utilized |
| 135.4 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Spiral |
| 135.6 | DF | .~.~ Electric furnace utilized (e.g., induction or radiant heat from electric source, etc.) |
| 135.7 | DF | .~.~.~ With submerged electrodes |
| 135.8 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Melting in separate zone of glass furnace |
| 135.9 | DF | .~.~ By charging batch material |
| 136.1 | DF | .~.~.~ Preheating batch material |
| 136.2 | DF | .~.~.~ Directing batch feed to float on molten glass surface |
| 136.3 | DF | .~.~.~ Burner directed towards batch or melt |
| 136.4 | DF | .~.~ By cooling molten glass |
| 137 | DF | .~ Cooling of molten glass |
| 138 | DF | ELECTRONIC ENVELOPE HEADER, TERMINAL, OR STEM MAKING MEANS |
| 139 | DF | .~ With means inserting wire into glass |
| 140 | DF | .~ By press mold |
| 141 | DF | MELT DISINTEGRATOR AND SOLIDIFIER INCLUDING FLUID-MELT CONTACT MEANS |
| 142 | DF | PARTICULATE BEAD OR BALL MAKING APPARATUS (E.G., PIN HEADING) |
| 143 | DF | .~ By rolling means |
| 144 | DF | MEANS SHAPING PREFORM FROM GRANULAR MATERIAL WITH FUSION MEANS |
| 145 | DF | PLURAL SOURCES FEEDING DIVERSE GLASS MELTS TO COMMON FORMING MEANS |
| 146 | DF | WITH MEANS TO FEED DIVERSE MATERIAL TO GLASS WORKING MEANS |
| 147 | DF | .~ Wire laminating means |
| 148 | DF | .~.~ Sheet rolling means |
| 149 | DF | .~.~.~ Sandwiching wire between opposed glass feeds |
| 150 | DF | .~.~.~ Roll coacting with platen |
| 151 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Embedding means on roll |
| 152 | DF | FUSION BONDING MEANS |
| 153 | DF | .~ Concentric body making (e.g., vacuum bottle making, etc.) |
| 154 | DF | .~ Glass to metal |
| 155 | DF | .~ Electronic device making |
| 156 | DF | .~ With article molding means |
| 157 | DF | MEANS PROVIDING SPECIAL ATMOSPHERE |
| 158 | DF | WITH SIGNAL, INDICATOR, INSPECTION MEANS, REGISTER, OR RECORDER |
| 159 | DF | WITH APPARATUS SAFETY MEANS |
| 160 | DF | CONTROL RESPONSIVE TO CONDITION SENSING MEANS |
| 161 | DF | .~ Glass working fluid or treating fluid control |
| 162 | DF | .~ Temperature or heater control |
| 163 | DF | .~ Speed control |
| 164 | DF | .~ Molten glass dispenser or gatherer control |
| 165 | DF | WITH REJECT CATCHER, DEFLECTOR, OR HOLDER |
| 166 | DF | PERFORATOR FOR ARTICLE OR PREFORM |
| 167 | DF | CONVERTIBLE TO DIFFERENT OPERATION |
| 168 | DF | WITH POSITIVE CLEANING MEANS FOR APPARATUS |
| 169 | DF | WITH MEANS PROVIDING PARTING MATERIAL |
| 170 | DF | WITH APPARATUS LUBRICATING MEANS |
| 171 | DF | WITH REPAIR, ASSEMBLY, OR DISASSEMBLY MEANS FOR APPARATUS |
| 172 | DF | .~ To replace worn or damaged parts |
| 173 | DF | .~ To provide alternately used parts |
| 174 | DF | WITH MECHANICAL CUTTER, SCORER, OR SCRIBER FOR ARTICLE OR PREFORM |
| 175 | DF | .~ With annealing means |
| 176 | DF | .~ Running length |
| 177 | DF | .~ Associated with article mold |
| 178 | DF | WITH AGITATOR FOR MOLTEN OR SOFT GLASS |
| 179 | DF | .~ Delivery area associated |
| 180 | DF | .~.~ Orifice associated |
| 181 | DF | COMBINED |
| 182.1 | DF | WITH FLUID SUPPORT FOR ARTICLE OR PREFORM |
| 182.2 | DF | .~ Gaseous support |
| 182.3 | DF | .~ Means for treating or maintaining molten metal |
| 182.4 | DF | .~ Including preform width maintaining or stretching mean |
| 182.5 | DF | .~ Structure or composition of lining material or arrangement with shell |
| 183 | DF | EXTRUSION DIE FORMER WITH UPSTREAM DISCHARGE ASSISTANT |
| 184 | DF | MEANS CHARGING CONTINUOUS FILM OR STRIP TO SEPARATE AND DISTINCT FORMER |
| 185 | DF | .~ Into sheet rolling means |
| 186 | DF | .~.~ With auxiliary heating or cooling means upstream of rolling means |
| 187 | DF | MEANS DRAWING TUBE OR ROD STOCK FROM BATH |
| 188 | DF | .~ Drawing vertically upward |
| 189 | DF | .~.~ With product take-down means |
| 190 | DF | .~.~ Means correlating air supply and bait movement |
| 191 | DF | .~.~ With internal core or centering means |
| 192 | DF | .~.~ Air injection means extending through bath |
| 193 | DF | MEANS DRAWING SHEET FROM BATH |
| 194 | DF | .~ With annealing or tempering means |
| 195 | DF | .~ Means dividing and recombining melt in draw chamber |
| 196 | DF | .~ Vertically upwardly with means bending sheet to horizontal |
| 197 | DF | .~.~ With moving endless drawing or flattening table |
| 198 | DF | .~.~ With coacting roll contacting surface of supply bath |
| 199 | DF | .~ With width maintaining and/or lateral stretching means |
| 200 | DF | .~.~ Stretching means |
| 201 | DF | .~.~ Adjustable width maintaining means |
| 202 | DF | .~ With pivoted lip tile |
| 203 | DF | .~ With auxiliary heating means for draw pot or drawing chamber |
| 204 | DF | .~ With cooling means in drawing chamber |
| 205 | DF | .~ With radiant heat reflector in draw pot or drawing chamber |
| 206 | DF | .~ With skimmer |
| 207 | DF | GOB CHARGING MEANS WITH SHAPE IMPARTING RECEPTACLE MEANS |
| 208 | DF | .~ With glass treating means |
| 209 | DF | .~ By fluid pressure discharge assistant means |
| 210 | DF | .~ By suction gatherer mounted above supply |
| 211 | DF | .~.~ With means correlating movable pool-closure |
| 212 | DF | .~.~ Gatherer moving transversely from orbit of traveling mold (i.e., ram type) |
| 213 | DF | .~.~ Mold is gatherer |
| 214 | DF | .~.~.~ Parison mold |
| 215 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With plunger movable relative to mold |
| 216 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With separate, distinct blow mold |
| 217 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Diverse molds traveling concentric orbits |
| 218 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Finish mold pivotally mounted below parison's orbit |
| 219 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With blow means |
| 220 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Sequentially used, distinct molds |
| 221 | DF | .~ By delivery from tank feeder |
| 222 | DF | .~.~ To parallel mold tables |
| 223 | DF | .~.~ With press means |
| 224 | DF | .~.~.~ With diverse molding |
| 225 | DF | .~.~ With gob guide means |
| 226 | DF | .~ With press means |
| 227 | DF | DIVERSE DISTINCT GLASSWORKING APPARATUS |
| 228 | DF | .~ Marvering means with blow means |
| 229 | DF | .~ Press means with blow means |
| 230 | DF | .~.~ With reheating means therebetween |
| 231 | DF | .~.~ Blank mold encaseable in finish mold |
| 232 | DF | .~.~ With mold inverting means |
| 233 | DF | .~.~.~ With pneumatic charge compacting means |
| 234 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Settle-blow means |
| 235 | DF | .~.~.~ Neck mold inverting |
| 236 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With parison mold inverting |
| 237 | DF | .~.~ Diverse molds traveling concentric orbits |
| 238 | DF | .~.~.~ With diverse motion of mold |
| 239 | DF | .~.~.~ With movable work transfer means between orbits |
| 240 | DF | .~.~ Plural traveling mold carriers |
| 241 | DF | .~.~.~ With movable intermediate work transfer means |
| 242 | DF | .~.~ Reciprocating mold bottom |
| 243 | DF | PLURAL DISTINCT GLASSWORKING APPARATUS |
| 244 | DF | .~ Spaced preform reheating means with reshaping means |
| 245 | DF | .~ Sheet rolling means |
| 246 | DF | .~ Plural presses |
| 247 | DF | .~.~ Plungers sequentially coacting with same mold |
| 248 | DF | .~.~ With relative rotation between plunger and mold during withdrawal |
| 249 | DF | .~.~.~ Plungers oppositely disposed |
| 250 | DF | .~.~ Plungers oppositely disposed |
| 251 | DF | .~.~ Plungers orbiting above orbiting molds |
| 252 | DF | .~ Fire-polishing means |
| 253 | DF | ROLLING MEANS TO FORM SHEET OR STRIP |
| 254 | DF | .~ With treating means |
| 255 | DF | .~ With corrugating or surface imprinting means |
| 256 | DF | .~ Roll coacting with planar platen |
| 257 | DF | .~.~ Reciprocating platen |
| 258 | DF | SHEET CASTING AND RECEIVING MEANS |
| 259 | DF | .~ With pot handling means |
| 260 | DF | WITH MEANS ABOVE MOLD TO TAKE-OUT OR TRANSFER PRODUCT |
| 261 | DF | BLOWING MEANS WITH BLOW MOLD |
| 262 | DF | .~ With treating means |
| 263 | DF | .~ Combined with vacuum means |
| 264 | DF | .~ Traveling mold |
| 265 | DF | .~.~ With means heating and/or cooling apparatus |
| 266 | DF | .~ Mold rotary about own axis |
| 267 | DF | .~ With means heating and/or cooling apparatus |
| 268 | DF | PREFORM RESHAPING MEANS WITH TREATING MEANS |
| 269 | DF | GLASSWORKING OR PREFORM BY OR WITH REHEATING MEANS (E.G., FLAME SEVERING) |
| 270 | DF | .~ Envelope tipping off type |
| 271 | DF | .~ Heating means movable relative to work during shaping operation |
| 272 | DF | .~ Work, workholder, or tool correlated burner control |
| 273 | DF | .~ Planar sheet preform |
| 274 | DF | .~ With spaced preheating means |
| 275 | DF | .~ Mechanical means to reshape preform |
| 276 | DF | .~.~ Tubular type preform |
| 277 | DF | .~.~.~ By resizing mandrel |
| 278 | DF | .~.~.~ Means supporting and orbiting preform |
| 279 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Preform supported horizontally |
| 280 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Preform supported vertically |
| 281 | DF | .~.~.~ By bending means |
| 282 | DF | .~.~.~ By internal forming means |
| 283 | DF | .~.~.~ By stretching means |
| 284 | DF | .~ Fire-polishing means |
| 285 | DF | .~ To reshape preform by flame pressure or gravity |
| 286 | DF | PREFORM RESHAPING MEANS |
| 287 | DF | .~ Sheet bending mold |
| 288 | DF | .~.~ With heat shield or heat sink |
| 289 | DF | .~.~ Including auxiliary movable sheet support or movable sheet guide means |
| 290 | DF | .~.~.~ Movable mold section |
| 291 | DF | .~.~ Having movable section |
| 292 | DF | .~ Cylindrical preform |
| 293 | DF | .~.~ By threading means |
| 294 | DF | .~.~ By expansible mandrel |
| 295 | DF | .~.~ By crimping means |
| 296 | DF | .~.~ By internal and external forming means |
| 297 | DF | .~.~.~ Both rotary driven |
| 298 | DF | .~.~.~ Rotary internal, stationary external |
| 299 | DF | .~.~ By flaring means |
| 300 | DF | MEANS APPLYING PNEUMATIC PRESSURE INSIDE OF DISCRETE CHARGE (I.E., BLOW MEANS) |
| 301 | DF | .~ With selective control means |
| 302 | DF | ARTICLE FORMING MEANS UTILIZING MOLD MOTION (E.G., CENTRIFUGAL CASTING) |
| 303 | DF | GOB SHAPING OR TREATING MEANS DOWNSTREAM OF GOB SEVERING MEANS |
| 304 | DF | WITH GOB HANDLING MEANS |
| 305 | DF | PRESS MOLDING MACHINE |
| 306 | DF | .~ With product treating means |
| 307 | DF | .~ Mold ring or baffle laterally and movably supported |
| 308 | DF | .~ Plunger coacting with successively presented molds |
| 309 | DF | .~.~ Relative rotation between plunger and orbiting mold |
| 310 | DF | .~.~.~ Independent dies actuated by common plunger |
| 311 | DF | .~.~ Means providing orbiting mold with diverse motion |
| 312 | DF | .~.~ Mold orbiting about horizontal axis |
| 313 | DF | .~.~ Vertically segmented orbiting mold |
| 314 | DF | .~ Plural motors coaxial with plunger |
| 315 | DF | .~ With core drawing means |
| 316 | DF | .~ With means to rotate plunger during withdrawal |
| 317 | DF | .~ Means reciprocating or oscillating female mold member |
| 318 | DF | .~ With means varying plunger pressure during pressing |
| 319 | DF | .~ With means for heating or cooling apparatus |
| 320 | DF | .~ Selectively operated plural plungers |
| 321 | DF | .~ Plunger penetrating superimposed mold table |
| 322 | DF | .~ With means to adjust plunger stroke |
| 323 | DF | PRODUCT OR PARISON CENTERING MEANS, OR MOLD AND/OR CORE ALIGNING MEANS |
| 324 | DF | MOLTEN GLASS DISPENSING MEANS (E.G., FEEDER OR LADLE) |
| 325 | DF | .~ Discharge orifice below melt level |
| 326 | DF | .~.~ With auxiliary heating or cooling means |
| 327 | DF | .~.~.~ At orifice |
| 328 | DF | .~.~ Plural plunger-type discharge assistants or discharge orifices |
| 329 | DF | .~.~ By differential gas pressure |
| 330 | DF | .~.~ By reciprocating plunger-type discharge assistant |
| 331 | DF | .~.~.~ With diverse motion |
| 332 | DF | .~.~.~ With severing means |
| 333 | DF | .~ Discharge lip with discharge assistant |
| 334 | DF | WITH MOLTEN GLASS CHARGE CUTTING OR SCRAPING MEANS |
| 335 | DF | GLASS FURNACE WITH FURNACE CHARGING MEANS |
| 336 | DF | GATHERING OR DRAWING POOL TYPE FURNACE |
| 337 | DF | .~ Supplemental heating or heat exchange means associated with pool |
| 338 | DF | .~.~ With deputer, draw ring, or draw shield |
| 339 | DF | .~ Separate and distinct means defining pool (e.g., floor-supported dam) |
| 340 | DF | .~.~ Movably mounted |
| 341 | DF | .~.~ Cascadingly connected |
| 342 | DF | .~.~ By bridge |
| 343 | DF | .~.~.~ Floating bridge |
| 344 | DF | .~.~ With deputer, draw ring, or draw shield |
| 345 | DF | .~.~ By suspended baffle |
| 346 | DF | GLASS CONDITIONING CHANNEL SECTION |
| 347 | DF | MELTING POT OR FURNACE WITH STRUCTURALLY DEFINED DELIVERY OR FINING ZONE |
| 348 | DF | PRODUCT COOLING MEANS (E.G., TEMPERING) |
| 349 | DF | .~ With preceding reheater |
| 350 | DF | .~.~ Plural spaced reheaters |
| 351 | DF | .~.~ Plural spaced cooling means |
| 352 | DF | DRAWING BAIT |
| 353 | DF | .~ With air supply means |
| 354 | DF | .~.~ With heating or cooling means |
| 355 | DF | MEANS HEATING OR COOLING APPARATUS |
| 356 | DF | .~ Internally positioned |
| 357 | DF | MOLD WITH SEPARATING MEANS OR CLAMPING MEANS |
| 358 | DF | .~ Core drawing means |
| 359 | DF | .~ With mold support or carrier |
| 360 | DF | .~.~ Pivoted mold sections |
| 361 | DF | MOLD WITH SUPPORTING OR CARRYING MEANS |
| 362 | DF | PLUNGER |
| 370.1 | DF | ROLLER MEANS FOR GLASSWORKING, TEMPERING, OR ANNEALING |
| 374.1 | DF | APPARATUS MADE OF SPECIAL MATERIAL |
| 374.11 | DF | .~ Metal-nonmetal composite |
| 374.12 | DF | .~ Metallic |
| 374.13 | DF | .~ Ceramic material |
| 374.14 | DF | .~ Asbestos containing |
| 374.15 | DF | .~ Elemental carbon containing (e.g., graphite, charcoal, etc.) |
| 375 | DF | MISCELLANEOUS |
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| 900 | DF | DRYING, DEHYDRATION, MINIMIZING OH GROUPS |
| 901 | DF | LIQUID PHASE REACTION PROCESS |
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| DIGESTS | ||
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| DIG 1 | DD | Lens envelope |
| DIG 3 | DD | Cracked glass |
| DIG 4 | DD | Electric heat |
| DIG 5 | DD | Foil glass |
| DIG 6 | DD | Glass electrode |
| DIG 8 | DD | Quartz |
| DIG 9 | DD | Tube |
| DIG 10 | DD | Stemware |
| DIG 11 | DD | Encapsulating |
| DIG 12 | DD | Reed switch |
| DIG 13 | DD | Computer control |
| DIG 15 | DD | Nonoxygen containing chalogenides |
| DIG 16 | DD | .~ Optical filament or fiber treatment with fluorine or incorporating fluorine in final product |